Winter Is Coming

Brrrr. It is starting to get cold outside these days. I have to admit that cold weather is not exactly my big favourite time of year and I know we are getting this kind of weather starting now for many months to come. I guess that we are going to lose out on the rather nice winter weather that we had last year when the weather seemed to be a lot better than what is being proposed for this year.

And yes, you, dear reader, are going to read about our big mess at least one more time. After all, I do need to get it out of my system by showing how well everything has been accomplished and that, in fact, we still have a good and calm future in our lives.

One huge advantage for my wife and me now is that the work that had to be done on our house after the big storm that we suffered here has pretty much been completed.  We were relatively fortunate in that we did not suffer any huge disasters as a result of the flooding waters that entered into our house. Oh we had a fair bit that covered the floor of our basement quite completely and for many hours. In one sense, we were quite lucky that the basement was not finished the way all the basements in all of our other homes that we owned before were completed. While we had some damage that was done, it was not a horrific job that had to be completed nor was it outrageously expensive to do so. Moreover, it could be accomplished relatively quickly which it was.

The outside contractors who had to do the work fixing up our place did so quite quickly. In addition, our insurance company paid the fees right away that allowed us to replace all of the parts that were damaged. We had no disagreements whatsoever as to what had to be done or what the costs were.

To be honest, I am quite pleased at what was accomplished so well. It meant that our house was brought back to "normal" in a relatively quick period of time. That made the life of my wife and myself so much easier and so much better. Moreover, we were able to go out and buy the replacement parts for our house that were destroyed pretty quickly. The items we found were at a very good price and we were able to get them delivered to our house and the parts were put in so easily. As an example, just the other day we received our new elliptical trainer that we put into our basement where our old one was located before (it was so much bigger than I thought it was even after Marsha and I had seen it in the Department store where we bought it). The fellow who put it all together did it so wonderfully in just over one hour. Heck, if I was doing that task, I expect it would have taken me days to do so if I could ever have done it properly in the first place!

I know that a lot of my neighbours are having work done in their premises probably because the damage there was much more extensive because many homes had a completely furnished basement. In fact, I heard that one place paid out many tens of thousands of dollars for putting in their basement when it was first built! Remarkably, I saw that wonderful premises about a week or so before the storm hit.  I was just shocked at what I heard happened there.  I saw all the pieces of the basements of so many homes that were taken outside after the storms hit. It just made me feel so tense about it all. Hopefully, with all the work being done around here everything will come back to "normal" as quickly as possible for everyone.

There lots of items that I want to write about in my Blogsite as soon as I can with my life coming back to normalcy I am hoping.  Obviously, one of the biggest subjects that I will be talking about are the articles in the Windsor Star on Friday dealing with the border file. I have to admit that I have no real understanding about why they were written in the first place since they did not accomplish very much at all as far as I am concerned. The total amount written by the various reporters was enormous.  Yet, I am not sure what the purpose of the articles was supposed to be. I do have an explanation for what is going on so you will have to come back shortly after I finished my article, dear reader, to read it.

I am sure that I will be writing eventually about the automobile industry once the relationship between the auto companies and the unions are all resolved. I am hoping that everything gets finished without a strike but who knows what will happen with Ford.  The number of people who have been added to the worker files have made our unemployment rates drop so significantly. Presumably, it should mean that our economy improves around our area. All that should help out everyone who is working and those that are looking for a job as well.

Speaking of employment, or rather unemployment, I will probably do an article dealing with the terrible situation in my area and the rest of the County dealing with the libraries. How long has the strike been going on now--- about 4 months I think. I still cannot figure out the reason why it had to be done in the first place. I must admit that I do not think that the Union is doing a very aggressive job of ending the strike and I think that Union members need to figure out what they have to do next if they want to get back to work before the end of the year. 

Of course, I might have something to say once the US elections are completed in November. Probably not a lot to be honest because that election I found pretty disgusting in the way that it is being handled and who is running for the senior Position. I have to admit that all I personally am interested in right now is who the next US President will be and what will happen in the State of Michigan.  It should be interesting as well to see what happens with the Governor of Michigan in the future.

Speaking of elections, while one is not going to happen next year in our area locally, it should be interesting to see how the members of the various Councils operate. Didn't you find it interesting reading the CBC News article recently talking about the City of Windsor Council after 2 years of it being in service.  What I am going to find fascinating is which individuals will start taking action to improve their position so that they can get more senior election positions. As an example, will the present Mayor of Windsor run again and, whether he does or not, who might decide to run against him?

I have saved a lot of newspaper articles over the last several weeks since the time of the huge storm here. I kept track of them and saved them because I expected that I would be unable to do much writing given everything that had to be accomplished from a personal perspective for my wife and me after all that had to be done because of storm that hit here. Even though I think I knew how to handle this matter because of my personal background in the legal business, nevertheless, probably because of my age and the state of health that I am in after my horrific medical situation, it was a very difficult period of time.

Anyway, dear reader, I trust that my life is coming back to normal now and that I will not have to worry so much about all the damage that was done around here that impacted us so much. There are lots of things I can write about as I have pointed out and I better start working on it as soon as possible.